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-visit the forts, make sure to leave donation money, helps keep the gardens maintained
-diving, by scuba or snorkeling, some rare looking fish with colors not seen on this world
- half day trip by small boat around the volcano Gunung Api
- walk around the streets at night and try out some street food around the market
- bike or moped hire see the other end of the island, talk to Bobby at Nurasia he can set you up with one
- moped hire if you dont have much time and cant handle riding up a few hills,
- visit the museum, get a tour there, small donation fee like everywhere for maintenance.
- istana mini, is the old Dutch administration buildings and store houses
- more activities for local crafts and walk tours from Bobby plus occasional pizza
- day trip to Bandar Besar (Lonthar) you can get the regular boat over and then find a taxi moped to take you to the Nutmeg Pala forest and coffee house
- a day trip to Hatta island for diving usually involves a stay over.
- get the boat to Run island, swapped with the English in 1667 for new Amsterdam Manhattan
- trek up the volcano, takes a bit of effort but anyone can do it. get a guide or go by yourself, bring a torch if you go early for sunrise. The boatman will show you the start of the path. When you get to the top make sure to mark where the trail is to get back down, otherwise you will be in for a full on jungle experience. there is a unique ecosystem of plants insects birds and animals up there so take of it and take your rubbish and plastic with you.
night walk down the main street
old Dutch ceramic from low tide
old new york colonial type street lamposts in town centre
viewpoint over old fort Nassau with Samurai genocide decapitating and sectioning locals in 1620 for VOC nutmeg spice monopoly.
painting shown in the local museum
old photo viewpoint from fort Belgica looking over old fort Nassau with the water well viewable on bottom right where headless bodies were thrown down
A Pala (Nutmeg) farm dwarfed by the canopy of the larger Kanari tree on Lonthar island
the small apricot looking Pala Nutmeg fruit, traded to europe along the spice trail via gaza and venice as a prized antidote to ward off the black plague, later found by european ships and spearhead capitalism and colonialism
timeless volcanic scenery central to the small archipelago, view from Lonthar island jetty
hire a scooter or bicycle to explore the small streets or the beach end of the island
view from fort Belgica over fort Nassau with trees on the foreshore of current Nurasia guesthouse
the old 17th century freemason style colonial clubhouse still standing as seen in the old black and white photo
crystal clear ocean you can see the bottom, iridescent colored fish
Banda known as the exiled outpost for the memory of Indonesian legends
vintage coffee and spice grinder display at the nostalgic Delfica cafe
old sailors smoking pipe discrded on the shore hundred or so years ago
Fragment of Amsterdam gin bottle
main street at night
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